# garage

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/ · frequency rank #4,674

## Definitions
1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
2. A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
3. A petrol filling station.
4. A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
5. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
6. A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
7. A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).

## Easily confused with
- **gare** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-gare)
- **grade** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-grade)
- **grace** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-grace)
- **grave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-grave)
- **gauge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-gauge)
- **grape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-grape)
- **gorge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-gorge)
- **grate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-grate)
- **graze** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-graze)
- **grange** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-grange)
- **garbage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garage-vs-garbage)
- **gage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gage-vs-garage)

## Common misspellings (8)
`agrage`, `gaarge`, `garaeg`, `garagge`, `gargae`, `garrage`, `ggarage`, `graage`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/garage